The more the food stamps keep going out the more the poverty goes up (as your USDA stats show) BUT in my town of Belfast, as @TiffanyBond well knows, there is no hunger in Waldo County and thus no need for increasing food stamps. This is understood and hope you can make sense of.
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...willing to have the serious discussion required and fair debate about why Maine's poverty level is where it is and what should be done NOW to increase food sovereignty (as in Waldo Co) as well as the rest of the state
#mepolitics
I'm absolutely willing to have a serious discussion and fair debate - though I personally prefer collaboration to debate. Most of the issues that can be resolved are probably most appropriate to a gubernatorial candidate, not a federal one.
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Certainly a US House Rep can push contracts when possible and try to nudge budgets/programs out to their own state and others, but it's a state-driven process mostly.
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Should I prevail for
#ME02, there would need to be a lot of collaboration with whomever takes the Blaine House and the rest of the federal delegation (as well as communities, etc). The federal levers don't do much in a collaborative vacuum.#mepolitics
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I couldn't agree more re collaborating vs. debating. And having serious discussion about poverty in Maine and what should be done about it is what we do almost everyday at
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Agreed. 2 weeks! @HollySeeliger set it up!
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